Charles Bray (6 April 1898 – 12 September 1993) was an English
cricket
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er and journalist.
[Both CricketArchive and Cricinfo give his name as "Charlie Bray". However the profile accompanying his Cricinfo entry refers to him as "Charles Bray", and that was the name that he used for his book and his journalism. It is unclear which was his birth name.]
Bray played for
Essex between 1927 and 1937.
His highest score was 129, saving the match after Essex followed on against the
New Zealanders in 1931.
He captained the county intermittently and later wrote the volume ''Essex'' from 'The County Cricket Series' published in 1950 by Convoy Publications Ltd.
He wrote for the ''
Daily Herald
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'' from 1935 to 1964, and subsequently as a freelance for ''
The Sun'', covering cricket and
rugby union. For his work as a war correspondent during the
Second World War he was
mentioned in despatches
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. He was chairman of the
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in 1953.
His brother,
Leslie Bray, also played first-class cricket.
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1898 births
1993 deaths
Cricketers from Brighton
English cricketers
English cricketers of 1919 to 1945
Essex cricketers
British sportswriters
Cricket historians and writers
English male journalists
English war correspondents
War correspondents of World War II
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